sespela wrote:Hey, I just used this tutorial to help a friend of mine which I have converted to LM.FYI: All worked out perfectly on my LMDE, no problems what so ever!:D

If I understand your post correct, the volume control issue happens only in LinuxMint and not in LMDE. Then it must be an Ubuntu vs. Debian issue.By the way, I use LMDE myself, and that is perhaps why I don't have this issue.

And your friend might want to use Gnome Alsa Mixer to adjust her sound volume levels until the issueis resolved.sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

Yes, you understood me correctly, it is in fact an Ubuntu VS Debian issue, sorry for my bad English.Yes, she is using the Gnome Alsa Mixer to adjust the level, but I was hoping someone had a work around so it would be possible to get a volme control. Also the keyboard shortcuts for adjusting the volume doesn't work.

PPA descriptionThe gnome-media/applets/settings-daemon packages are for users running without PulseAudio. They will disable the Pulse-based volume control and use the "classic" gstreamer-based volume control, which includes an option to configure event sounds. Also, GNOME media-keys will once again work without PulseAudio.

Also I translated your howto to spanish on my blog.But now I have a problem... There are now an update that tryis to remove esound :S . What I do? I remove it or not? Thank you!I attach an image that show the mint updater asking me if I want to remove it...

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Hi ridoj, just go ahead and remove it. I just did the latest updates and removed 'esound'. I can't see any changes. Everything seems to work as before.

When I wrote the guide I read somewhere that 'esound' was needed to play games like "Chaos Strikes Back" and alike, and that was why I included it,but right after I wrote the HowTo, 'kwevej' asked in this post:

I replied: "Yes, it is needed to mix several streams for playback by a single device, and to redirect sound to remote servers."

He wrote back: "mix several streams for playback by a single device works with ALSA alone as well (because of dmix)"

I don't see 'dmix' in Synaptic, but I see 'libesd0' (Enlightened Sound Daemon) which is already installed and it does the same job.Synaptic's description of libesd0: "This program is designed to mix together several digitized audio streams for playback by a single device."

Update: I have rewritten the HowTo and have removed the part about installing 'esound' since it is going to be removed anyway.

Thank you very much ridoj. I guess you need to correct the Spanish HowTo as well. Something else you might write in the translation (if you haven't already) is that this howto is only for LMDE users. Mint 10 users are supposed to use this guide.

If you're running pulse, chances are you created file /etc/asound.conf to route requests to alsa thru pulse. If you uninstall pulse, these changes aren't reverted automatically, so you must undo them - otherwise, many apps will be muted and you'll never know why (this happened to me).

So, if you have a /etc/asound.conf which looks like this:pcm.pulse { type pulse}

ctl.pulse { type pulse}

pcm.!default { type pulse}

ctl.!default { type pulse}

Just delete it. If it has something other than the lines above, just erase the lines. You'll probably have to restart alsa for changes to take effect.Keep up,Emerson

Emerson Prado wrote:If you're running pulse, chances are you created file /etc/asound.conf to route requests to alsa thru pulse. If you uninstall pulse, these changes aren't reverted automatically, so you must undo them - otherwise, many apps will be muted and you'll never know why (this happened to me).

So, if you have a /etc/asound.conf which looks like this:pcm.pulse { type pulse}

ctl.pulse { type pulse}

pcm.!default { type pulse}

ctl.!default { type pulse}

Just delete it. If it has something other than the lines above, just erase the lines. You'll probably have to restart alsa for changes to take effect.Keep up,Emerson

I followed the guide and it works fine, except that (I think) my default device is wrong, it's either using an analog or hdmi-audio output instead of optical.

When I can set the audio output device for a program to use I get sound, but for programs that use the default device I don't get sound.

How can I change the default audio device? I can't find an ALSA config file and wiki's floating around on the net all refer to a config file. I have no idea how or what to put in such a file from scratch.

Another thing I'd like to do while we're at it is to disable any resampling done on bitrate and frequency.

Thank you very much for this help. I've been having major problems using USB audio input to covert LP's to digitial music. This did the trick. I've tried off and on for a year to get this to work. Thanks again.